Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:46:18 +0200
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: Einstein Quote = XSelf


Cologne 07-Jun-2001

Kenneth,

Seems that there is a U-self rather than an X-self or a closed ego-O-self.

Dasein is an individual U open to the world, like a paraboloid receiver
receiving world, which all passes through the focal point of the parabolic
U-self.

Michael
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Kenneth Johnson <poochiegraig-AT-home.com> schrieb   Tue, 5 Jun 2001 22:33:18
-0700:

> Came across this on the web and it struck me rather sharply, that this one
> liner by Einstein pretty much sums up the outcome of my long struggle
> trying to present the universal simplicity of the XSelf here on the
> Heidegger list:
>
> "Fish will be the last to discover water."
>
> Think about it.
>
> -k
>
> ps, reminds me a bit of Nietzsche's comment, something to the effect that
> it was not his fault if there are no fish in the waters he had cast his
> line into.
>
> or, alltho with far less or no sync, the hospital psychiatrist who on
> observing an inmate fishing in a bathtub inquired: "Gotten any bites?" - to
> which the inmate replied, "Of course not, are you nuts, this is a bathtub".
>







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